nearly cried in the fitting room

Last March 12th I was wearing size 44" jeans (just barely). Co-workers were talking about this thing called 'My Fitness Pal' and my ears perked up. That day I started on MFP with the 'dream' of losing 65 pounds and weighing 220. I've now gone beyond those two goals and today I reached another goal; fitting into 34" jeans. I haven't worn 34x34 jeans since I was in my 20's (I just turned 58 this past week). I tried on three different pairs just to make sure it wasn't a fluke and bought all three pair. And yes, I nearly cried when I (comfortably) buttoned that first pair up.

MFP was the tool I needed to change my life. First I learned calorie accountability, nutrition, food choices, how to boost metabolism, and portion control. Then I joined a gym and signed up for several sessions with a personal trainer (money well spent). I remember well some particular words of encouragement he said to me when he had me doing some excercise I didn't like doing; ' You gotta do this if you want to be rock star! '. No, I don't want to be a rock star, but I wanted to reach those goals and those words of his still ring in my ears when I try talk myself out doing whatever hard thing I need to be doing, like getting out of bed early to go walking or to go swim laps.

I've got more goals to go, foremost of which is to maintain the MFP inspired lifestyle and thus keep the weight off. Still got a ways to go on the number of chin-ups I can do and need to go skydiving with my son.

I can only hope that any of you folks just discovering MFP that have any 'can it really help me? doubts reads this as I can assure you that it most certainty can. You just got to be true to it and true to yourself.


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